Month: May 2018

Northern Michigan’s beverage market is thriving – world-class wines, desirable craft beers, unique sodas and teas – and now businesses, such as Strongbrew, are using a new approach to coffee. Venture North is helping local entrepreneur Troy Daily launch a new cold-brew coffee product known as Strongbrew Cold Brew Coffee. Specifically, a $75,000 Venture North…

Tim Brick of Brick Wheels in Traverse City been in the retail business long enough to know that it’s important to put your products and people in the best possible light – literally. Brick turned to Venture North for a $12,000 loan from its Energy Efficiency Loan Fund created with Traverse City Light & Power…

Tweaking a successful business can be a challenge – but it’s one Dave Sears of Fieldstone Deli is embracing with positive results. Sears and his wife Jennifer purchased the popular market and delicatessen along North Long Lake Road west of Traverse City in late 2017, with the help of $70,000 in gap financing received from Venture…

Since its establishment back in 1995, Food For Thought and owner Timothy Young have built the company into one of the area’s best-known local food brands as a value-added manufacturer of primarily local, organic and natural Michigan products such as fruit preserves, salsas, mustards and sauces. Food For Thought is also provides co-packing services for…